A woman who grew up in south central Minnesota grew up using the phrase too yet, which can have various meanings at the end of a sentence, usually with some negative sense. An article by Peter Veltman in American Speech suggests that the tag too yet...
Yolanda from San Antonio, a native of the Netherlands, wonders whether going Dutch, meaning that each person pays their own way, implies that Dutch people are cheap. The phrase belongs to a cluster of English expressions that cast the Dutch in an...
fleak
n.— «FLEAK, s. a small bundle of hay; not a truss.» —by Robert Holland A Glossary of Words Used in the County of Chester (London, United Kingdom) , 1886. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
